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MISCELLANKOUS NOTICES. 



bird, as she sat in her nest with her young. She immediately left the nest 

 and limped away, as if wounded, to induce the dog to follow her; but as 

 soon as she found that he still pursued her young, she returned and defended 

 them so successfully, as quite to repel the dog. 



Great, or Solitary Snipe, (Scolopax major.) — A fine specimen was shot 

 near Dover Castle, on Mr. Prescott's farm, measuring eighteen inches from 

 tip to tip. 



Great Noiihern Diver, (Colymbus glacialis.) — "A specimen, shot at the mouth 

 of the Spey, was found to have in his pouch no fewer than nineteen flounders 

 and a salmon-trout." Illustrated London News. 



Th-e Cormorant, (Phalacrocorax carbo.) — Mr. Plunkett, son of Lord Plunkett, 

 fired at one in the county of Mayo, on the wing, with a rifle; and having 

 shot it in the neck, the bullet cut in two a large eel, which the bird had 

 in its throat at the time. 



Voracity of the Trout. — I have seen a Trout, four pounds weight, seize a 

 Water Eat. The fish was caught soon after, with the Eat inside. 



On the Flounder, (Platessa flesus.) — Mr. Ecnnie, in a note to Izaac Walton, 

 says, ^'The taking of Flounders with a rod and line, is a thing so accidental, 

 that it is scarcely worth the mention." I have myself taken very many 

 with rod and line, baited with a worm; and have seen hundreds caught in 

 that way. 



Artificial Flies. — Th^ere are numerous instances of birds taking the Artificial 

 Fly. A gentleman, who was fishing at Nethevthorpe, last summer, cauglit 

 a Swallow on each of his flies; and at every cast of the line he was 

 surrounded by numbers of them. A friend of mine once caught an Eel with 

 an Artificial Fly, as he was fishing in shallow water; and I know many 

 instances of Bats being caught in attempting to seize the fly. 



Ivy-leaved Toadflax, (Linaria pilosa.) — Found a specimen, quite white, in 

 Worksop Manor gardens, in September I80O; similar, in every other respect^ 

 to the pink, so common on old walls in many parts of the country. 



Kivdon Park, RotJierham, April 11^^., 1851. 



3ffistBliniiraD3 Mniim. 



Hare and Eahbit. — In my private ^Naturalist,' I find the following note from 

 the ^^Perthshire Courier," for 1849; and shall feel obliged if any reader of 

 this Magazine can record a similar instance, or any knowledge of the same. 

 We have kept Hares and Eabbits in the same box together, but never knew 

 them to intermingle; nor can we altogether credit, (we may be wrong) what 

 follows: — "In 1849, a Hare was shot, apparently a cross between it and a 



